The clarion., 1887-11-02
THE STATE.

1he Brandon democrat Is no more.
Cooper's Well closed for the season
| yesterday.
Dr. ID. L. Phares has withdrawn from
the Live Stock Journal.
A rattlesnake feet long, was recently
killed in Yazoo county.
Matthias E. Garry, aged ninety years
died at Meridian on Monday last.
Mr.. Edgar Berry, Grenada youth OF
sixteen, killed three deer last week.
Mr.. Orrick Metcalfe, son of Mr.. ii. l..
Metcalfe, of Natchez, died last Week.
The South Mississippi Fair was opened
on Monday, by Col. Stockdale, and is
now in progress
The members of the famous Camden
Band are each and all Madison county
born boys and girls.
In Lexington the Offices of express
agent, telegraph operator and postoffice,
are run by young ladies.
The Aberdeen Fair, notwithstanding
the very inclement weather, was very
good and well attended.
The Natchez colored people gave an
entertainment in that city few nights
ago, called the Bell Drill.
A concert is to be given in Vicksburg
very soon, to aid in raising funds to
build the Missouri Monument.
The Madison County Fair was great
success-largely exceeding the veay san
guine expectations of the managers.
The Progress says about 100, 900 gal
Ions of sorghum has been made in
the vicinity of Water Valley this sea-
son.
There were two gins burned near
Yazoo City, and three near Greenville,
last last week, each one contsining cot
ton.
Several attempts have been made, of
late, to burn the Cherry street school
house for colored children, in Vieks-
burg.
]. F. Duggar, class of 'S7, A. and NJ
College, is assistant professor of agri-
culture in the A. & NJ. College of
Texas.
The Durant wagon factory is sue
cess. An exchange says the sale of
wagons during one month, amounted to
over $1,000.
Dr. VIM. Whitehead, a prominent cit
izen of Learned, has moved to Crystal
Springs with his family, and will in fu-
ture reside there.
The Hattiesburg Courier and Demo
crat dwell together in the same town, in
brotherly love that is refreshing in this
day and generation.
Butter at the Macon Creamery sells
for 274 cents per pound. This same
creamery recently made shipment of
butter to Troy, n. Y.
Sam Small, who expected to visit
Natchez Immediately, has postponed his
visit until April, when he will come
back, accompanied by Sam Jones.
The A. & NJ. College Reflector, and
the Industrial College Echo, are two of
the most entertaining exchanges that
wend their welcome way to our desk.
Mr.. J. G. Hastings organized at Union
Church, Jefferson county, last Monday,
Ledge of Knights and Ladies of
Honor, with twenty-five charter mem
bers.
Messrs NJ V. Ledbetter and George
Reynolds, of Aberdeen, have recently
purchased a number of the finest horses
that have ever been brought to this
State.
A sensational shoe ing occurred at
Clinton last Sunday evening. Constable
FLOYD Burnett was shot, and severely
wounded in the arms and breast, by
Mrs. Baskins, living near town.
Mrs. Frances L. Walton, of Lexing-
ton, has spent half century in Holmes
county, and on Friday she celebrated
her 18th birthday by walking couple
of miles.
Perry Fuller, one of the brightest stu
dents of the A. & NJ. College, who grad
uated in the class of '87, holds a position
in the Geological Department at Wash
ington, d. G.
2. w. Reynolds, the Holly Springs
editor about whom so much has been
written and said, has been heard from
at last, in Batesville, where he is work
ing on the Panolian.
Count Weglinski, a cotton planter
from Southern Russia, was in Greenviile |
recently, the guest of Mr.. Herman Will
ezinski, examining into the mode of
American cotton culture.
We are glad to note that our friends, |
Mr.. ard Mrs. r G. Patty, of Macon,
took first premium upon almost every |
thing they entered at the Macon Fair, !
and they made vast number of en-
tries.
A double wedding was celebrated in |
Rankin county last week, at Dry Greek |
church-Mr. John Pierce and Miss Min
ME Waddell, and Mr.. Will Mangum and |
Miss Addie Smith, were the interested |
parties.
Gen. S. ID. Lee, in his speech before |
the Agricultural College Presidents in
Washington recently, amazed his East
ern and Western auditors in regard to
the climate, products and resources of
our State.
Near Sturges, last Thursday, while
colored minister was making speech to
a small immigration meeting, another col |
ored man on the outside of the building
fired on him through the only open win
dow of the house and blew out his
brains, killing him instantly.
The A. & NJ College seniors are for
hidden by the laws of the College to
publish any criticism upon the action of
the officers of the College in prohibiting
the annual ball, but they say that they
keep up terrible thinking on the sub
ject, just the same.